Between 2005 and 2015, five tribal communities in Michigan conducted a series of community based surveys called the American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey (AIATS). Results of these surveys revealed striking health disparities related to commercial tobacco use, including: In most communities, the average age of smoking initiation was between 13 and 15 years old. Most […]
Susan G. Komen FUNDING OPPORTUNITY – 2017-2018 Susan G. Komen South Dakota Community Grants Program
Applications are being accepted October 15 to December 9. You can also access the application here.
Our Voices Nuestras Voces Webinar – Connecting Hispanic LGBT Communities with Health Care: A Focus on Smoking Cessation and Cancer Screening Services
FREE Webinar on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 @ 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST Please join the Nuestras Voces (Our Voices) National Hispanic Network to Reduce Tobacco-Related and Cancer Health Disparities, and its sibling Network, LGBT HealthLink, for our next scheduled webinar, Connecting Hispanic LGBT Communities with Health Care: A Focus on Smoking Cessation and Cancer […]
Smoke Free EVENT: An Integrated Qualitative and Quantitative Approach to Understanding Smoke-free Policy Issues on the Navajo Nation
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern; 12:00 – 1:00 pm Central; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Mountain; 10:00 am – 11:00am Pacific; 9:00 am – 10:00 am Alaska [Presented by: Patricia Nez Henderson, MD, MPH, Vice President, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health […]
SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium 4.5 Trillion Cigarette Butts
INFOGRAPHIC AVAILABLE HERE That’s how many are littered each year around the world. Cigarette butts are toxic to our oceans animals and to us. These days everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is not healthy for your body, but the knowledge of what butts do too ocean animals is less common. Cigarette filters are made […]
Smoke Free Wrangell Senior Apartments go Smoke-Free!
By Tammi Meissner, Health Educator, SEARHC Health Promotion No-smoking policies are rare in public housing. This is especially troubling because it affects disadvantaged and vulnerable populations who have little choice when it comes to tobacco smoke exposure. In 2008-2009, 32% of households in public housing included elderly persons. Wrangell Senior Apartments is leading the way […]
Smoking Cessation Smoking permanently damages your DNA, study finds
ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Maggie Fox of NBC News HERE Smoking scars DNA in clear patterns, researchers reported Tuesday. Most of the damage fades over time, they found – but not all of it. Their study of 16,000 people found that while most of the disease-causing genetic footprints left by smoking fade after five years if […]
Truth Anti-smoking group, Truth, releases musical FOMO spot for MTV Video Music Awards
The anti-tobacco movement Truth is hitting young people in their pocketbooks with a new spot called “Squadless” that makes its television debut during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Aug. 28th. Citing statistics that say smokers earn 20% less money than their smoke-free peers, the spot by 72andSunny features hapless teen smokers […]
Smokeless Tobacco Smokers with newly discovered genetic markers have higher lung cancer risk
ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Medical News Today HERE University of Hawai’i Cancer Center researchers discovered new genetic markers associated with a fast rate of nicotine metabolism, which potentially leads smokers to smoke more, thereby, increasing their risk for lung cancer. Dr. Loïc Le Marchand, a professor and leading epidemiologist in the UH Cancer Center’s Epidemiology Program, […]
Tobacco Two thirds of US adults believe pharmacies should not sell tobacco
Two-thirds of American adults believe pharmacies should not be allowed to sell tobacco, while 14 percent strongly oppose such a policy, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Researchers also found nearly half of cigarette smokers, as well as nearly […]